What’s next? ‘Actually, the sky is blue’
🤷 New people get born every day. Gotta restate the obvious from time to time, make sure everyone is caught up.
Is Inside Job based on a true story?
It’s not a cabal, it’s all narcissists with money competing against each other. They all know what’s best for them and are the main characters in their feeble minds.
“They know what’s good for them” – George Carlin
No, there’s not.
There’s many of them, and they are all rich and trying to stab each other’s backs to get more power and money.
And history shows that EVERY time they felt their wealth and power were genuinely threatened, they conceded both. You don’t even need a bloody revolution, they just need to see that it is a possibility before their thin skin starts crawling.
The british monarchy saw the french revolution and invented the parliamentary system. The robber barron’s saw the communist revolutions in the east and suddenly the new deal, suffrage, and civil rights. Today, the billionaires are outclassed and out numbered worse than either of those examples, and will crumple like a paper tiger the second their facade is broken. All they have is their propaganda networks to protect them.
And history shows that EVERY time they felt their wealth and power were genuinely threatened
Watching Musk get behind a mic and start bellyaching about declining fertility rates is rather revealing
I almost wonder if Rogan is a useful idiot, if someone running his show is the elite crazy or at least wannabe elite.
I think Rogan believes he’s in charge though. He talks like he’s making his own decisions.
Undoubtedly he’s being manipulated but yeah at the very least he’s a useful idiot.
Yes, and that someone is largely believed to be Thiel.
No need to wonder, it’s been obvious for years now.
Being a useful idiot doesn’t require the person being aware of their idiotic usefulness. Usually they aren’t.
I think it’s important to understand, these people believe that they already control the world. From their perspective, they aren’t “trying”, they’re doing. And they believe they have the right to do so. They believe that having wealth makes them more important and more capable than everyone else, even though the reality is often that having wealth separates them from having to actually do anything for themselves, making them less capable and less experienced than everyone else.
The rest of us, our needs, our concerns, our desires, our lives… none of that matters to them, except when it either enables or impedes getting what they want.
The only thing preventing the entire world from being stuck in complete, abject despotism is that these people are often at each other’s throats. When they collude, everything they touch turns to garbage.
i think the oligarchs do defacto control a significant chunk of the world and they are trying to exercise that control to enact their deranged ai-hallucination-like version of reality that their confirmation broken brains think should be done
thankfully they do not share these visions with eachother commonly and nation states are slowly making laws to prevent them abusing the global financial system
Being insulated from reality and surrounded by sycophants causes literal brain damage.
Imagine fighting a long war where one side knows they are fighting the war, and a vast majority of the other side thinks they are trying to help them.
There’s no war other than class war. We’ve been fighting it for centuries. Remember that.
Right but there are people amongst us poor who threw their lot in with the wealthy years ago. They’re as much the enemy because they would fight on the side of wealth.
The only thing preventing the entire world from being stuck in complete, abject despotism is that these people are often at each other’s throats. When they collude, everything they touch turns to garbage.
That’s the hope. I’m sure there are a handful of billionaires who are decent enough people, tech co-founders who didn’t get all weird about the tech money. But the other 98% are legit sociopaths. They can’t co-exist for long, they’re all secretly undercutting each other. It’s in their nature.
One possible future is letting the dragons fight it out, and picking off the stragglers. Fingers crossed 🤞
Absolutely agree. They really believe that they are all that matters.
The retreat is scheduled for August 12–16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.
The original version of the source article identified the location as the Powerscourt Hotel; in an act of journalistic cowardice (to be expected from a Condé Nast Publication) Wired later edited their article to remove that detail “to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative”.
Esquire is unsurprisingly sticking with Wired’s “near Dublin” description of the location, but fortunately it looks like some Irish media outlets (eg this and this) are reporting where it actually is so hopefully there will be some local opposition present.
yes… trying…
Why yes they’re called ‘billionaires’ and there’s like 3.5 thousand of them.
Sorry for this odd question, but why “3.5 thousand” instead of 3500 or 3.5k?
“3,5 thousand” seems common in spoken language, but not in writing, afaik. I don’t know how common it is in english (and dialects), but in german it is.
Its fine, but in English, three and a half thousand (fraction rather than decimal) is probably more common.
Eat the rich.
And compost them too!
There Really ARE Cabals of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World
It’s more than this one.“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”
More accurate to say “several overlapping cabals trying to expand their own fifedoms”
"Fife"doms aside, it should be thiefdoms
fifedoms
No no, those are fife drums
I spell bad a lot, but I’m keeping my typo as-is so this makes sense in the future, as it made me laugh.
Woah man. That’s what conspiracy theorists argue.
Nah, they think it’s only one, and then oscillate between Bilderberg, the Knights Templar, and the Illuminati.
IRL, there’s a Venn diagram of 3 to 7 wealthy Cool Kids groups that all compete for influence and money. They’re generally not even that secretive about it other than Peter Thiel.
How many of them have been on Rogan?’
Who hasn’t? Simpler that way. Someone showed up with money at Joe’s, 2012 if I had to bet.
Has he had on Timothy Mellon, the second largest political contributor after Elon Musk in the last election cycle? Has he had on the Uihleins or the Adelsons?
Only a small subset of the people making huge political donations want publicity, and only an even smaller subset of those are interesting enough that Joe Rogan would do a podcast with them.
Don’t think that most of them are interesting in a macabre way like Thiel or Musk. Most are old, crotchety assholes who inherited vast fortunes who aren’t interesting, don’t seek publicity, and just want to remake the world without pesky democracy interfering.
